 On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love; I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source; No...  The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 222by British poets - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - Natural history - 1818 - 492 pages
...for we are indebted to him for the following beautiful lines to the lake itself. On Leven's hanks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod tii" Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...those, without our schools, suffice Fo make men moral good and wise. II.— Qrfe- to Leven Water, OK Leven's banks while free to rove^ And tune the rural...ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transpar""* wave My youthful limbs I wont to lav No torrents stain thy limpid sou. JS« recks impede... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1820 - 254 pages
...fantastic vision in the clouds, inviting the approach of Yours always, Cameron, Aug. 28. MATT. BRAMBLE. ODE TO LEVEN-WATER. On Leven's banks, while free to rove,...love ; I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. I'ure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 254 pages
...clouds, inviting the approach of Yours always, Cameron, Aug. 28. MATT. BRAMBLE. ODE TO LEVEN-WATEE. On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the...love; I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. My youthful limbs I wont to lave; Pure stream! in whose transparent wave No torrents... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 748 pages
...incomparable elegance and simplicity, in his picturesque and accurately descriptive Ode to Leven Water. " On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod tli' Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave Mr youthful Hmbs I wont to lave ; No torrents... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...And those, without our schools, suffice To make men moral, good and wise. II. — Ode to Leven Water, ON Leven's banks while free to rove. And tune the...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to la've ; No... | |
 | Tobias Smollett, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 584 pages
...clouds, inviting the approach of ^•tnirs always, Cameron, Aug. 8. MATT. BRAMBLE. ODE TO LEVEX WATEIl. On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest twain That ever trode th* Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...schools, suffice To mate men moral, good and wise. » II.— Ode to Leven Water ' ON Leven's bank, while free to rove -> And tune the rural pipe to love I envied not the happiest swain v That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I'm wont... | |
 | Scotland. [Appendix. - Descriptions, Topography & Travels.] - Scotland - 1821 - 378 pages
...Random, &c. was a native of this place, and has painted its bounties in an ode, beginning thus,— " On Leven's banks while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love," &c. At the distance of t*ro miles from Dunbarton, on the right, is an old mansion-house on the bank... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...without our schools, suffice To make men moral, good, and wise. II. — Ode to Leoen Water. ON Leven'e banks while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe...love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod th' Arcadian plain. Pure stream ! in whose transparent wav« My youthful limbs I wont to lave ; No... | |
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